The UNILAG Vice Chancellor also revealed what the universities spend money on, of which personnel cost is the highest. Other big expenditure channels include
I was at the forefront of the protest against the arbitrary increment in fee hike by the high-handed University of Lagos management, which was held on the 6th of September, 2023. This is a constitutionally valid measure for citizens including students to express their grievances and air their demands as enshrined in the 1999 constitution.
There appears no end in sight to the supremacy battle between doctorate degree holders in the university system and medical professionals in the academia over prerequisite for appointment into the position of vice chancellor.
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Mrs Ayodele Atsenuwa, a Professor of Public Law at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka has been appointed Vice-Chancellor (Development Services).
Atsenuwa until her new role was the Dean of Faculty of Law of the university.
She succeeded Prof Folasade Ogunsola whose tenure in that capacity ended early March. Prof Ogunsola is the acting vice-chancellor of UNILAG during the face-off between the then led Dr Wale Babalakin’s governing council of the university and the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.
Prof Atsenuwa, however, was elected into her new office via an electronic voting process with 81 votes (63.28%) against her rivals at the Statutory Meeting of the university’s Senate held on Monday, March 29.